I have written a flex and bison, I am facing a problem which is illustrated via the below program.
The program is intended to parse the key-value pairs separated by an equals (=) sign I am hoping that my bison script tokenizes the key and values and prints them.
Below is the snippet of my flex program
%{
/* file : kvp.l */
#include <stdio.h>
#define YYSTYPE char*
#include "kvp.tab.h"
%}
%%
[a-zA-Z0-9][_a-zA-Z0-9]* {
yylval=yytext;
return IDENTIFIER;
}
"=" {
yylval=yytext;
return EQUALS_OP;
}
. ; /* Do Nothing */
%%
int yywrap()
{
return 1;
}
Below is the Bison program
%{
/* file : kvp.y */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* interface to the lexer */
int yylex();
int yyerror (char const *s);
%}
%token IDENTIFIER EQUALS_OP
%start stmt
%%
stmt: stmt pair | pair;
pair: IDENTIFIER EQUALS_OP IDENTIFIER
{
printf("YACC : Key = \"%s\"\n", $1);
printf("YACC : Equals = \"%s\"\n", $2);
printf("YACC : Value = \"%s\"\n", $3);
};
%%
int yyerror (char const *s)
{
fprintf (stderr, "Error String = \"%s\"\n", s);
}
int main( int argc, char* argv[])
{
yyparse();
return 0;
}
The result which I am getting out of this program is as below.
student@debian:~/stack-overflow$ flex kvp.l
student@debian:~/stack-overflow$ bison -d --file-prefix=y kvp.y
student@debian:~/stack-overflow$ gcc lex.yy.c y.tab.c -o parser
student@debian:~/stack-overflow$ ./parser
earth=planet
YACC : Key = "earth=planet"
YACC : Equals = "=planet"
YACC : Value = "planet"
As one can see the tokens which are being printed is not right, the entire string beginning from the token is being printed. Please tell me where I am going wrong in this program.